A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.